Beauharnois
E1011636
Beauharnois is a town in southwestern Quebec, Canada, known for its location along the Saint Lawrence River and the large Beauharnois hydroelectric generating station.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Beauharnois canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12611782 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Beauharnois Context triple: [Quebec Autoroute 30, passesNear, Beauharnois]
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A.
Deschambault-Grondines
Deschambault-Grondines is a rural municipality in the Capitale-Nationale region of Quebec, Canada, known for its historic village core along the St. Lawrence River and its agricultural landscape.
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B.
Boignée
Boignée is a village that forms one of the municipal sections of the municipality of Sombreffe in the province of Namur, Wallonia, Belgium.
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C.
Lantheuil
Lantheuil is a small commune in the Calvados department of the Normandy region in northwestern France.
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D.
Douaumont
Douaumont is a small commune in northeastern France best known for its World War I battlefield sites near Verdun, including major memorials and military cemeteries.
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E.
Maurepas
Maurepas is a commune in the Yvelines department in the Île-de-France region of north-central France, known as a residential suburb southwest of Paris.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Beauharnois Target entity description: Beauharnois is a town in southwestern Quebec, Canada, known for its location along the Saint Lawrence River and the large Beauharnois hydroelectric generating station.
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A.
Deschambault-Grondines
Deschambault-Grondines is a rural municipality in the Capitale-Nationale region of Quebec, Canada, known for its historic village core along the St. Lawrence River and its agricultural landscape.
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B.
Boignée
Boignée is a village that forms one of the municipal sections of the municipality of Sombreffe in the province of Namur, Wallonia, Belgium.
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C.
Lantheuil
Lantheuil is a small commune in the Calvados department of the Normandy region in northwestern France.
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D.
Douaumont
Douaumont is a small commune in northeastern France best known for its World War I battlefield sites near Verdun, including major memorials and military cemeteries.
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E.
Maurepas
Maurepas is a commune in the Yvelines department in the Île-de-France region of north-central France, known as a residential suburb southwest of Paris.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
municipality
ⓘ
town ⓘ |
| areaCode |
450
ⓘ
579 ⓘ |
| climate | humid continental climate ⓘ |
| country | Canada ⓘ |
| crossedBy |
Autoroute 30
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Route 132 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| electricityProducedFor |
Quebec power grid
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
export markets in North America ⓘ |
| governmentType | municipal council ⓘ |
| hasEconomicActivity |
hydroelectric power generation
ⓘ
services ⓘ transportation ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
hydroelectric dam
ⓘ
locks on the Beauharnois Canal ⓘ |
| hasHydroelectricPlant |
Beauharnois generating station
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Centrale de Beauharnois NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMajorStructure |
Beauharnois Canal
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Beauharnois generating station NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPortionOf | Saint Lawrence Seaway infrastructure ⓘ |
| hasRiverCrossing | Beauharnois Canal bridges NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hydroelectricPlantCapacity | over 1900 MW ⓘ |
| hydroelectricPlantOnRiver | Saint Lawrence River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hydroelectricPlantOperator | Hydro-Québec NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Quebec NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInAdministrativeEntity |
Beauharnois-Salaberry Regional County Municipality
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Montérégie NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInContinent | North America ⓘ |
| locatedInCountrySubdivision | Province of Quebec NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInHemisphere | Northern Hemisphere ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion | Greater Montreal area NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedNear |
Montreal
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Valleyfield NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedOnWaterbody |
Beauharnois Canal
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Lake Saint-Louis NERFINISHED ⓘ Saint Lawrence River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| observesDaylightSavingTime | UTC−04:00 ⓘ |
| officialLanguage | French ⓘ |
| operatorOfMajorFacility | Hydro-Québec NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Southwestern Quebec NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOfHydrologicalSystem | Saint Lawrence River watershed NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| postalCodePrefix | J6N ⓘ |
| primaryLanguage | French ⓘ |
| timeZone |
Eastern Time Zone
ⓘ
UTC−05:00 ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Beauharnois Description of subject: Beauharnois is a town in southwestern Quebec, Canada, known for its location along the Saint Lawrence River and the large Beauharnois hydroelectric generating station.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.